![]() ![]() But this doesn’t answer the question of why medieval history: in fact, the more sources the better, really, so modern history would be more justifiable with this than medieval.Īlso, it doesn’t work so well for higher education as it does for history in schools. The first and better is that the study of history teaches a critical faculty, allows one to assess the possibility that the sources are lying or misinformed, and if you’re lucky also provides you with informative and interesting parallels to your own experience while you’re at it. At least so “they” say.Īgainst this there are two defences. ![]() Modern history might have something to teach you about the world now but the Middle Ages are pretty much about how it got that way, if that, and things were just too different then for it be relevant. The first one is that which we all fear: that actually, in a market-dominated age, you can’t justify the study of the past, especially the medieval past. Well, I have heard various answers and liked none of them. In other words, how do we answer the question, what have the historians ever done for us? I mean, that’s what the post is really about, but because we all really know that-viz, that it floats our personal intellectual boats to find stuff out that was once known and is now recoverable only by an exercise of skill that makes us feel smug as well as enlightened-the question is more how to justify doing that to the general public, especially when the question of HE funding and their tax bill comes to the fore. All of this was done with artistic license from the writer and are not considered typical of the characters.This happens a fair bit, but I have just seen it happen again: someone is asking, from the inside, what the point in being a historian is. For example the Hulk during the Secret Wars broke his leg, Spider-Man once defeated Firelord, the Black Panther put the Silver Surfer in a hammer lock. This means it either should be noted or not used at all since the 90% of the time the character does not exhibit that ability very often. It should go without saying that "fiction" is the operative word here. Writers of fiction are allowed to take all sorts of liberties with facts, in the interest of crafting a good story. In many cases, the sampling community will rate new pieces, and one of the judging criteria is entitled "Artistic License". The sampler has taken (sometimes wild) artistic license with other musicians' works. Music sampling is a relatively new discipline, in which bits and pieces of other works are taken and compiled into a new piece. Obviously, this was not how they did things back at the old Globe, but the director has been seized with an artistic vision and must be indulged.Ī poet is granted artistic license to rhyme something with the word "orange", even though "orange" has no rhyming word in English. ![]() Simply put, artistic license means an artist is accorded leeway in his or her interpretation of something, and is not held strictly accountable for accuracy.įor example, the director of your local theater group might decide it's high time Shakespeare's Hamlet was staged with the entire cast walking on stilts. ![]()
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